Mark Mazz, AIA, a longtime member of AIAPVC, is the Nation’s foremost architectural authority on the accessibility provisions of the Fair Housing Act, subject of disabled accessibility design in housing. Presently with the Department of Justice, Mazz assists the attorneys with enforcement, and has become a primary enforcement officer of Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines (FHAAG) accessible design standards.
Milton Shinberg, AIA, principal of Shinberg Levinas Architectural Design LLC, a recipient of a 2002 Design Award from the Chapter, offers some insight into his practice, philosophy and outlook on architecture.
Design for Rick Donnally, AIA has been a life-long celebration, an active exploration. Thoroughly committed to his practice, he persuades that his building designs meet market expectations, look great, and don’t leak--all on budget.
Travis Price, AIA...architect, philosopher, theoretician impresses that for him architecture is a medium for ideals. Price is a prolific practitioner, as well. Highly committed to the ideals of place, modernism, and environmentalism, and more, he seems contradictory and at all times willing to break with tradition.
Serious, cool, eloquent, Suman Sorg, FAIA quietly defuses the interview experience and laughs. Promptly, it’s on to another topic. As a singular force behind a forty person design firm with an international clientele, there is no time for nonsense here. The master of her own style, she takes ideas to quiet, private places, all in a private trance, or as it might seem.
Mark McInturff, FAIA is intently focused on buildings of exquisite design and on what is necessary to perfect his craft. The models, consummate in themselves, do not reveal the commitment and persistence, that explain, at least in part, this architect’s extraordinary career.
Lee Jones, AIA cites the encouragement and untimely death of a close friend and Groton classmate for his decision to focus on design and architecture. Architecture was not a career promoted by the milieu of prep school. With a tiny percentage of our AIA membership black, Lee’s decision to study architecture was an exceptional choice by any standard.
Will Cawood, Assoc. AIA has been a co-Associate Director of AIA Potomac Valley Chapter since January of 2003. In the summer of 2003, Will visited Havana Cuba with the Catholic University Architecture Masters programs, and discusses that experience in this interview, as well as his views of the state of the profession from his perspective.
Alexis Krug, Assoc. AIA recently visited an elementary school and talked about architecture with 140 fourth graders. She discusses that experience and her views about architecture, and women in architecture, in this interview.